A major project to implement full e-prescribing and drug administration across three acute care sites in Birmingham's Heart of England NHS Foundation Trust has commenced. The Trust's Board has chosen to implement JAC's E-Prescribing and Medicines Administration (EPMA) system to ensure best practice for patient safety.

Hospitals and other public institutions, just like private companies, feel the growing importance of optimizing their sourcing processes and organizing their procurement more efficiently due to financial reasons. "eVergabe", developed by the Hessian software provider Healy Hudson, is the first e-tendering solution for the European healthcare sector and is already in use by four procurement associations.

ETIAM has released a new version (3.40) of DICOM Izer, a powerful solution for capturing, converting and distributing non DICOM images to PACS. Improved productivity and conformance to connectivity and interoperability standards are the prime enhancements of this new version.

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PharmaNews.eu, an advanced web based news project targeting the European pharmaceutical domain, has been launched. The project was developed to directly connect, promote and disseminate the European Industry and Research pharmaceutical achievements with additional focus on the European Commission (EC) and European Medicines Agency (EMEA) news.

Nuance Communications, Inc. (NASDAQ: NUAN) has announced the successful integration of its SpeechMagic technology into GE Healthcare Centricity Radiology Information System (RIS) in a Citrix environment. Centricity powered by SpeechMagic is the first RIS to provide industrial grade speech recognition - including front and backend support - within Citrix Application Delivery Infrastructure.

In the framework of the development scheme 'Central Innovation Scheme for Medium-sized Businesses' of the German Federal Ministry for Economics and Technology (BMWI), clinIT AG, based in Freiburg, Germany, has been awarded a six-figure federal grant in cooperation with the Institute for Informatics of the Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg, Faculty for Data Bases and Information Systems.

iB Solutions, an IBA Health Group company (ASX:IBA), has won a contract worth over €600,000 with the Medical Council of Ireland in Dublin to develop a system for the country's 17,000 doctors to register membership online. The deal includes capital spend and support for five years.